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Introduction: Soft liner materials, when used with ill fitting dentures, are constantly kept in a wet environment of either saliva or denture cleanser that affects their sorption and solubility. These inturn have detrimental effect on other properties. Aim: To evaluate the influence of different exposure times of a commonly used denture cleanser on sorption and solubility of four soft liners. Materials and Methods: Metal disc was fabricated to make the mould space for soft liner samples. Four materials were used, long term and short term acrylic liners; long term and short term silicone liners. Each of these were divided into four groups: first control group– all liners were kept in artificial saliva for entire period of study. Second group- liners were immersed daily in cleanser for 1 hour and then transferred to artificial saliva for rest of the day. Similarly samples of third and fourth groups were immersed in cleanser for 4 and 8 hours respectively and transferred to artificial saliva. Sorption and solubility tests were conducted and statistical analysis done. Statistical Analysis: One-way ANOVA followed by Post-hoc Tukey’s test for pair wise comparisons was done. Significance was set at the probability level of p < 0.05. Results: Solubility values of all groups were higher than the quoted ADA specifications. Conclusion: Overall, silicones performed better than acrylics. Long term silicone was most stable. Short term acrylic was most unstable. The 8 hour immersion in denture cleanser caused significantly high sorption and solubility.